Re: newmail.wav (was Re: I'm new to balsa and can't get it to work ...)

["Axel H. Siebenwirth" <axel hh59 org>]

hey,

I found a nice page where there are some nice newmail sounds..
just take a look, maybe yaŽll find something.

http://wso.williams.edu/~eudora/eudora-alert-sounds.html

axel

On 2002.03.30 21:53 David M. Stowell wrote:
> On 2002.03.30 14:30 Michael Broaddus wrote:
>> I bet these complaints will only get more common as balsa gets more 
>> "average" users.  I don't mind changing default sounds but 
>> apparently this really bothers some people.  Instead of packaging 
>> newmail.wav (fairly obnoxious and unchanged since 12/98 when pavlov 
>> checked it in) could we just link to /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav 
>> (gnome-audio-extra) or something
>> similar?  We could of course create a new sound, but I'm no artist 
>> in that area.  I hate to think people might be bad-mouthing a great 
>> email
>> client over something this silly.
> 
> I just tested the current sound.
> 
> Yep, that's obnoxious.
> 
> I'm a computer musician by trade, so I could whip a sound to spec if 
> you all are interested. We really should get rid of the current one.
> 
> David Stowell
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